Hey everyone! What are your top 10 tracks (or less, or more?) that REALLY get you going during a workout? The kind that you just have to stop and close your eyes for a second because you can feel your body tensing up and getting ready to LIFT BIG TO GET BIG!

Special honors to the song that, for some reason, always shows up to every gym I've been to:Taylor Swift - Trouble!

I was originally going to post my entire Playlist, but all of them have at least 70+ songs, and that'd be nuts. And format unfriendly. =PMight make a cardio one, too, because the two playlists are so different.

I am more of an R&B/rap/hip-hop kind of guy but for the life me there is no way I can ever seem to get motivated to lift listening to R&B/rap/hip-hop. Below is a list of groups I've complied for my lifting playlist based on recommendations and sampling different styles:

My iTunes is kind of a hot mess of songs I love and a whole lot of "please don't judge me". I have a few hundred songs and I don't have a set play list, but I tend to go for a beat. That helps motivate me, or at least keeps me moving"Yes, I've been known to get in the zone, forget where I'm at... and shake my butt a little":)))Ab time, I tend to go with a slower grove.

When I got out of the military and was still power lifting i had these bands playing at all times on my CD player and mp3 playerObituary- Slowly we RotSlayer- War Ensable​Cannible Corpse- Addicted to Vaginal SkinSepultura- Dead Embronic CellsDanzig- She RidesDanzig- Am I EvilMetallica- Creeping DeathMegadeth- Sweating BullitsSepultura- OrgasmatronMotorhead- The Ace of SpadesSlayer- Dead Skin MaskAnthrax- Cought in A Mosh​Anthrax- IndiansNWA- Straight out of ComptonToo $hort- Dont Fight the Feelingand many many more.... but those songs ALWAYS got me into "Kill Mode" at the gym and they still do!!!!

Anything Rock, and more on the harder/heavier side. Black music, whether old school, or this current Rap/Hip Hop stuff, isn't aggressive or energetic enough. Danceability doesn't apply in a hardcore gym environment, IMO.

I am going to be that guy. I used to listen to music until I really got into Olympic lifts (snatch and clean and jerk) which require a lot of timing and balance. Having headphones in really distracted from my breathing and technique. No joke, with headphones Max clean was 215 without 245... With that said, when I ised to warm up before pitching in college I would listen to music that made me angry, I mean teeth grinding, psycho eyes angry.

It definitely varies from session to session. But since I love Eminem, I have to go with his hard hitting songs like: Forget about Dre, Infinite, Square Dance, Old Time Sake, Rabbit Run, Say What You Say, Soldier and of course Till I Collapse. Honestly, I can just list his entire discography. Like I said before, it depends on the day. Some day I lift to classical piano music. Moonlight Sonata to start it off.

Olympic lifting requires 100% concentration, due to the amount of technique involved in the lifts. Same thing with powerlifting, but to a slightly lesser degree. Music doesn't seem to bother bodybuilders, because poundage, leverage, and 1 rep max isn't their primary concern.

When I'm lifting I don't even notice the music unless it's classic rock. Music/no music, it makes no difference in my workout. I do like music in my cross fit(ish) class, classic rock works best for me but whatever the instructor is using is fine. I never wore headphones, I started lifting before they became popular and I don't like them on my head when I work out. I don't even like to wear lifting gloves when I work out, for that matter I wear as little clothing as possible. I'm kind of a minimalist when it comes to fitness except for the volume and intensity of the workouts themselves.